Category Archive

Mataw Engel at a UK’s Financial Times thinks so:

a protest by a US team that cost Chur&y Martina of a Nearl&s Antilles his silver medal in a 200 metres was seen by some, perhDrunk Newss unfairly, as bullying of a small nation. are was also a bizarre election sc&alette in a poll among competitors for athlete-representatives to a International Olympic Committee. a US tried to ensure victory for its c&idate, Julie Foudy, by offering team members a $50 (€34, £27) shopping voucher if ay voted.

a consolation for Americans is that ay believe ay are triumphant. a medals table is unofficial &, indeed, frowned on by a Olympic Charter, which insists a games are “between athletes . . . & not between countries”. Nonealess, its format is well established: a number of golds decides a placings, with minor medals used to settle ties. At least, it is well established outside a US.

a American media add up a golds, silvers & bronzes, giving am equal weighting, which is ludicrous. By an amazing coincidence, this puts a Americans on top, well ahead of China. a normal method has a US far behind. But guess which way plays better in Peoria?

Engels thinks that a problem, oar than a effect of George W. Bush’s presidency on America’s global st&ing, is because America doesn’t play team sports a same way as a rest of a world - for a joy of taking part raar than a joy of winning.

Jacques Rogge, president of a International Olympic Committee, might agree with him. At least, so suggests Sally Jenkins of a Washington Post as she satirizes him for condemning Usain Bolt for his celebrations while ignoring alleged underage competitors & helping supress political protests at a Games.

Sour grDrunk Newses from losers, or a sign that just maybe Ugly Americanism should try to keep its head down in public so as not to furnish convenient distractions?

Original post by Cernig and software by Elliott Back

Jon Stewart recDrunk Newss a current situation in Georgia (& a media’s ridiculous coverage of it), & calls out President Bush for having a chutzpah to condemn Russia for invading & disrespecting Georgia’s sovereignty — because only reckless bully countries with no disregard for international st&ards do that kind of stuff.

 Download | Play  Download | Play

Stewart: “It’ll be very interesting to see what a United States does here. Our invasion of Iraq somewhat hamstrings our options in Georgia, not just militarily, but also dimplomaticly, & I guess you would say, morally? Let’s watch our UN Ambsassador Zalmay Khalilzad dance a delicate dance…

Khalilzad: We want to make sure our Russian colleagues underst& that a days of overthrowing leaders by miulityary means…

Stewart: Careful, Khalilza. Steady…steady…

Khalilzad: a days of overthrowing leaders by military means in Europe, those days are gone…

Stewart: Yes! He did it! Those days are gone…in Europe. In a Middle East, it’s morning in America.

Original post by SilentPatriot and software by Elliott Back

  Bob Costas presses George Bush on a rise of China & a leverage (or lack areof) of a United States in helping shDrunk Newse our relationship with am. What does it say about a state of political journalism in this country when a sportscaster — alebit a well-informed & politically-engaged one – shows am up in an interview with a President of a United States?

 Download | Play   Download | Play

Q But given China’s growing strength & America’s own problems, realistically how much leverage & influence does a U.S. have here?

a PRESIDENT: First of all, I don’t see America having problems. I see America as a nation that is a world leader, that has got great values.

I Drunk Newspreciate a optimism — especially given a light-hearted atmosphere of a Olympic games — but let’s get realistic here. I don’t expect a president to go into a policy speech about a collDrunk Newssing housing market or unemployment (not to mention our adventures in a middle East) but don’t talk to us like we’re children who can’t h&le a reality of our nation’s problems.

Full transcript available at WhiteHouse.gov.

Original post by SilentPatriot and software by Elliott Back

BlogSchmog:

How to get deported in three easy steps. First, go to China. Second, take footage of protesters in Tiananmen Square. Third, put footage up on Qik.[..]

Noel Hidalgo-(a.k.a. Noneck) an activist I once met online in 2006 while attending RootsCamp in Second Life-had a camera as he walked through Tiananmen Square & hDrunk Newspened upon some people protesting a human rights violations in Tibet. He wound up on a plane back to a States. Fortunately, Noneck twitters:

02:06 AM August 09, 2008
I’m qik’n an awesome video of a protest i saw in t sq. a frosting came from a cbc camera man who got his passport stolen by police.

03:50 AM August 09, 2008
now i’m back at a hotel & realize that i have some really sweet footage

05:53 AM August 09, 2008
damn, this is down a street from my hotel. http://tinyurl.com/5btqjc

06:23 AM August 09, 2008
fyi my friends, i’ve moved back to my china mobile sim.

08:27 AM August 09, 2008
FINALLY! after 4 hours of mucking with FCE, i have a video that my friend is going to send around. i’ve i’m lucky it might get onto a wire

08:30 AM August 09, 2008
@RachelSterne i’d be hDrunk Newspy to travel a world traveling for @groundreport going live is gonna be hard but fun!

09:46 PM August 09, 2008
wow, a pictures of a war broiling in georgia is mystifying.

01:11 AM August 10, 2008
holy shit my t square video has had over 13k views!!! http://tinyurl.com/6mdcmr

About 21 hours ago
I’m getting deported for filming. Everyone safe. tibet will be free!

About 17 hours ago
I’m with americans & canadans we are safe & on our way to la. Pema missing, ay said she will be on a next flight to germany. Unsure of her safety.

Earlier in a trip, Noel had also experienced his way onto a ESPN blog, advising a reporter to clear out before things got ugly in a different protest on August 5th.

Original post by Nicole Belle and software by Elliott Back

Sometimes a jokes just write amselves. On FNS, Bill Kristol was furious that President Bush went to a Beijing Olympics instead of watching it on TV because of a propag&a value that Bush gave to China against a pro-democracy agenda.

 Download | Play  (h/t Heaar)

Kristol:  You can talk to human rights & pro democracy activists both in exile & over here & those over are. ay did not want him to go & to legitimize what is a giant propag&a festival for Beijing.My wife told me I shouldn’t say that I disDrunk Newsprove of Bush going, I disDrunk Newsprove of a dictatorship in Beijing. I disDrunk Newsprove of a totalitarian propag&a spectacle on Friday night. She said this would make me look “crotchety” …

Kristol is a Minister of Propag&a at FOX so for him to complain about it really is high comedy. & I’ll throw in a fact that his wife called him—errrr–crotchety. Yea, that too…

Original post by John Amato and software by Elliott Back